Orienteering race 14:36 [5] ** 2.5 km (5:50 / km) +10m 5:44 / km
20c
COC Sprint
Best controls:
1, 6, F (T-1st); 9, 18 (T-2nd); 8, 17, 20
Time loss:
4 - 45s - Trapped. Was wary and saw the trap in advance but misinterpreted the control descriptions anyway.
5 - 5s - For some reason, looked for the control on the wrong side of the trail.
10 - 5s - Decision hesitation.
11 - 10s - Suboptimal route choice.
12 - 15s - Went to the second level first, control was on the first level. Looking at the map and control descriptions, not sure how to tell the difference here.
I was hoping that a clean race would put me in the top five along with the speedy Canucks. As it turned out,without the major mistake at 4 I would have been fifth behind Will, Graeme, Thomas Nipen, and Patrick. When I sprint cleanly, I get solid results, but in the next 7-8 months I need to figure out how to increase the frequency of sprinting cleanly, while also pushing the ceiling upward.